Paramedic - HMP YOI Deerbolt
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves responding to medical emergencies within the prison and supporting the integrated healthcare service. The paramedic will manage a small clinical caseload, triage minor ailments, and provide interventions within their scope of practice. It also includes supporting the development and maintenance of national healthcare standards for prisons. This is a maternity cover position.
Key responsibilities
- Respond to all medical emergencies as they arise within the prison.
- Support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model.
- Manage a small clinical caseload.
- Carry out effective triage of patients presenting with minor ailments.
- Provide paramedic interventions within scope of practice.
- Support the development, implementation and maintenance of the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
Essential criteria
- Registered Practitioner including Level 1 - RGN/RMN, GPHC or HCPC
- Post registration experience working within a relevant clinical setting
- Awareness of current healthcare issues
- Awareness of clinical governance, risk management and quality agenda
- Awareness of professional and clinical accountability, legal issues, role limitations and boundaries and balancing duty of care and public safety issues
- Sound working knowledge of professional guidance including NICE and quality standards
- Excellent communication skills
- Willing and able to work alone
- Able to demonstrate a history of leading on improvement initiatives
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload
- Able to manage change Good interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of factors affecting health care within a custodial environment
- Ability to analyse problems, gather relevant information and exercise sound judgement in reaching the most appropriate conclusions
- Ability to prioritise workload, work at a fast pace and meet deadlines
- Experienced in applying and implementing systems to manage workloa
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship / teaching / assessing experience
- Chronic disease management or long-term condition or willingness to undertake
- Understanding of local and national key documents and their impact on health care delivery in a prison setting
- In depth knowledge of prison needs in relation to primary care, mental health and addiction support and an ability to work across
- Management of Long Term Conditions
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Spectrum Community Health CIC
Paramedic - HMP YOI Deerbolt
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
To respond to all medical emergencies as they arise within the prison. To support the delivery of an effective integrated healthcare service clinical model. To manage a small clinical caseload. To carry out effective triage of patients presenting with minor ailments. To provide paramedic interventions within scope of practice. To support the development, implementation and maintenance of the National Standards for Health Care in Prisons for the service.
Please note this role is a maternity cover.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the assessment, treatment and care of prisoners to reduce inappropriate conveyances and subsequent emergency department admissions, where clinically safe to do so.
To provide care to prisoners within the establishment in collaboration with the wider Multidisciplinary team.
To provide urgent clinical care in the Prison in response to patient need.
Recognise that the local trust may have different protocols and policies for delivery of interventions and medicines from Ambulance and Primary Care providers, and to work within the scope of these protocols.
To respond appropriately to triage requests for assessments and care and to undertake triage.
In the absence of the Clinical lead, to take responsibility for the c
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